Reports of sexual assaults on and around Bourbon Street are not common, but they are also not rare enough for locals and visitors to drop their guards, at any time of the day, records show.

The most recent report of a sex crime came at 12:23 a.m. Thursday (June 12) when a 37-year-old woman said a man raped her in a dark, secluded spot at Decatur and St. Louis streets after leaving Bourbon Street. The woman told police she had been bar-hopping on Bourbon Street with her husband when the couple got separated. She said a stranger approached her, said he knew where her husband was, took her to Decatur street and attacked and robber her, a brief synopsis from NOPD says.

In the past six months, there have been eight other sex crimes reported within one block of the popular entertainment strip with six occurring between 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

There are three reports of aggravated rapes, four simple rapes and one count of indecent behavior, according to a map on the NOPD website.